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Blog, Video Spotlight NIMH Neuroscience Trainee

Discovered brain circuitry of key maternal behavior as grad student

October 15, 2015 • Science Update

A recent NIH Director’s Blog and Lab TV video (above) feature a young neuroscientist whose discoveries as a graduate student were supported, in part, by a NIMH training grant. Bianca Marlin, Ph.D., now a post-doctoral fellow at New York University (NYU), and colleagues, reported last spring in the prestigious journal Nature that the hormone oxytocin interacts with experience to tune the female rat brain to attend to maternal duties by effectively amplifying the significance of pups’ distress calls via circuitry in the left auditory cortex.